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There is scope here for counting the total number of Elizabethan Royal Maundy recipients. Each year there is said to be one man and one woman for each year of the Queen's age. (I assume no non-binary recipients yet).

Malcolm of Kent | 14.04.22 - 9:34 a.m. | #

Hello Malcolm, those figures could be inaccurate. I know for a fact that my Granddad stood at the end of the line with his hand out. For many years he worked at Westminster Palace. Goodness knows how many sets of Maundy Money he acquired, yet none of the family have one. My bet [pun intended] is it went on the horses.

parktown | 14.04.22 - 9:49 a.m. | #

A bit of spreadsheet work says the answer is 8,148. (Excluding 2020 and 2021).

LibreOffice having a function to find the date of Easter on a given year proved unexpectedly helpful.
Interestingly, since Easter fell unusually late in 2011, making Maundy Thursday fall on the Queen's birthday, the Queen's age was 85 in both 2011 and 2012.

anon | 14.04.22 - 9:59 a.m. | #

Managed to be "just passing" in both 1994 and 2007, 2 of the 3 occasions I've seen HM

Jaco | 14.04.22 - 12:34 p.m. | #

One penny, one man and one woman for each year that the monarch has lived, being pretty much one more than her age; though as the age-related coins are 92.5% sterling silver (50% silver 1921–1946), they are worth increasingly more than their face value.

According to reports:
1951 (George VI): 56d + 20s + “provision allowance” of 30s
1952 (Elizabeth II): 26d + jubilee crown (5s) + “various allowances”
1971: 45 pence (“all Maundy pieces are deemed denominated in new pence”) + £1 15s (women) / £2 5s (men) “in lieu of clothing” + £2 10s “in lieu of provisions”
2010: 84p + “money in lieu of food and clothing”
2011: 85p + “£5 coin commemorating the Duke of Edinburgh’s 90th birthday and a 50p coin marking the 2012 London Olympic Games”
2012: 86p + “a small amount of money in lieu of food and clothing”
2022: 96p + “£5 coin and a 50p coin portraying the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee”

Were the 2011 recipients short-changed?

Rich G | Homepage | 14.04.22 - 10:12 p.m. | #











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